Hey, I'm Ryan Eggled from TV shows like New Amsterdam, The Blacklist, and of course, leave it to Beaver. You're on that? I was the Beaver. Didn't know. And I'm Adam Rose, an actor on TV, blue cardigan guy on your social medias, and Avid Speedwalker. We're the hosts of Small Stupid Stuff, an important new podcast from Studio 71. Ryan and I talk about the big issues, the heavy questions, pressing topics.

Like coffee date etiquette?

Best time to eat cereal.

And of course, whether you put your toilet paper over or under or around.

I don't know what around is.

I don't either, but I'm definitely an over man.

Yeah.

Every episode, we're joined by a celebrity guest who gives us their hottest takes on the stupidest,

smallest stuff.

Jocco Sims, Michelle Carrey, Alex Breckenridge, Pete Haversberger, Amber Childers.

Our goal is to solve the world's problems by finally figuring out the truth about crap that doesn't

matter.

So listen to Small Stupid Stuff on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

And watch us on YouTube, new episodes every Tuesday.

Stop.

From New York City, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language. I'm John McWhorter, and you know,

this show is going to be kind of a good old-fashioned Lexicon Valley as hosted by me. I want to just work with

one sentence. It's something that came to me recently. I was watching through the fourth season of the Crown, getting to it kind of late.

But frankly, I spent the pandemic watching so much garbage, like the 4,000 episodes of the Jeffersons that I realized I hadn't gotten to the Crown.

It's kind of weird seeing somebody playing Lady Die, although that actress is amazingly good.

But there was this one sentence, and I just thought

as it went by, wow, there's so much history in that one mundane, shaggy, stupid little sentence. It's the

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